The Rolling Stones‘ career will be immortalised in a new exhibition opening next year.
The various band members have granted access to their extensive archives for The Rolling Stones – Exhibitionism, which is due to open next April at the Saatchi Gallery in London.
They’ll be hoping it is as successful as the V&A exhibition which celebrated David Bowie‘s career back in 2013. Keith Richards has said it will be a story of history as much as music.
“While this is about the Rolling Stones, it’s not necessarily just about the members of the band,” he remarked. “It’s also about all the paraphernalia and technology associated with a band like the instruments that have passed through our hands over the years, that will make the exhibition really interesting.”
The Rolling Stones remain on tour after returning to the live stage towards the end of 2012, and frontman Mick Jagger has insisted this new career reflection isn’t a sign that they’re planning to finally wrap things up.
“I don’t think it means it’s all over just because you’re doing a sort of retrospective exhibition,” he said. “I think, you know, we’re still working and still doing shows and I think we will continue to do so.”
“It would be lovely if it was, but I have a feeling it won’t be,” drummer Charlie Watts added, in his usual laconic way.